[geeklog-devtalk] Feature Req: Sub-topics, RDF limit

[Steve Sloan]

There are two features that I would love to have in GeekLog.  I'm prepared to
implement them myself, but I wanted to find out (1) if the changes would be
welcome in the source tree (2) if anyone else had already done it and (3) if
I'm even going about it the right way.

First, I really need some method for organizing topics hierarchically. 
One of
the GL sites I run has several "sub-sites", with their own topics, and
some of
those topics have sub-topics.  Also, having sub-topics would allow for more
individualized topic icons.

The best implementation I can think of would be to add a "parent topic" field
for each topic in the DB.  When the articles from a particular topic are 
displayed, all articles from all sub-topics would also be displayed.  The
only
downside to this is that I can think of no good way to handle a
hierarchical
SQL query.  At best, it would require N SELECTs to get all the topics that
are
N levels deep in the hierarchy.

The other feature, though minor, would be to add a field to portal blocks to
limit the number of RSS headlines listed.  I added Fark to my collection of
news blocks, but their RSS contains a bazillion entries, making the page 
stretch out further than I'd like.  This would seem to be fairly easy to
add.

Any thoughts?  Would anyone else find either of these useful?  Is there 
another way to get the functionality that I want?

Thanks ...

-- Steve